Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.
Interpretation
Artists should have confidence in their work, believing any creation has the potential for success.
Ray Charles emphasizes the importance of belief in one's artistic creations. The quote suggests that an artist should approach their work with the mindset that every song they record has the potential to resonate with audiences and become a hit. This confidence might seem egotistical, but it allows for greater creativity and freedom in the artistic process.
In practice
In an artist seminar to inspire young musicians.
I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain't supposed to cry, but I think that's wrong. Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human. Oh yes, I cry.
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.
Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.
When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.
The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.
Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His job is to paint the entire picture and knows all the colors that have to be in it.
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